Google announced a few upgrades and new features to its Maps and Places APIs during the Google I/O developers conference on Wednesday. On the API front, Google Maps’ Product Manager Thor Mitchell ...

Google is putting its best foot forward for those accessing its Places API. To provide better search results, the Places API is now integrated with Maps results. Developers have been requesting that ...

Google announced today that its Places API for iOS is now out of beta and available to all developers. The service was launched in March for Android, with a beta program for iOS developers. It allows ...

Google Play Service’s Location APIs give you an easy way of displaying the user’s current location, but there’s only so much value you can get out of a “You Are Here”-style marker on a Google Map! The ...

Location can be so much more than a latitude and longitude: the new Places API makes it easy to get details from Google’s database of places and businesses. The built-in place picker makes it easy for ...